Former Quote by Ernst Haas

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

— Diana Vreeland

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know…

— Robert Adams

Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention,…

— Sam Abell

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

— Charlotte Cotton

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will…

— Michael Kenna

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must…

— Yukio Mishima

Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their…

— Peter Turnley

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams